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		</div><p>Fourteen million Americans would lose coverage next year under plans to reform the US healthcare system, with the number ballooning to 24 million by 2026, Congress has said.</p>
<p>A report by the Congressional Budget Office deals a serious blow to a Republican drive already under fire from both parties and large segments of the medical industry.</p>
<p>It undercuts a central argument President Donald Trump and Republicans have cited for swiftly rolling back the 2010 healthcare overhaul &#8211; that the insurance markets created under the statute are &#8220;a disaster&#8221; and about to implode.</p>
<p>The congressional experts said the market for individual policies &#8220;would probably be stable in most areas under either current law or the (Republican) legislation&#8221;.</p>
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<p>The report also flies in the face of Mr Trump&#8217;s talk of &#8220;insurance for everybody,&#8221; which he stated in January. He has since embraced a less expansive goal &#8211; to &#8220;increase access&#8221; &#8211; advanced by House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans.</p>
<p>Health secretary Tom Price said the report was &#8220;simply wrong&#8221; and omitted the impact of additional Republican legislation and regulatory changes the Trump administration plans.</p>
<p>In a sign of trouble, Representative Mark Walker, leader of a large group of House conservatives, said the report &#8220;does little to alleviate&#8221; concerns about the bill including tax credits considered too costly.<br />
The budget office&#8217;s estimates provide a detailed, credible appraisal of the Republican effort to unravel Barack Obama&#8217;s 2010 overhaul.</p>
<p>The office has a four-decade history of even-handedness and is currently headed by an appointee recommended by Mr Price when he was a congressman.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has repeatedly attacked the agency&#8217;s credibility, citing its significant underestimate of the number of people who would buy insurance under &#8220;Obamacare&#8221;.</p>
<p>On the plus side for Republicans, the budget office said the party&#8217;s plan would reduce federal deficits by 337 billion dollars (£276 billion) over the coming decade.</p>
<p>That is largely because it would cut the Medicaid programme for low-income Americans and eliminate subsidies that Mr Obama&#8217;s law provides to millions of people who buy coverage. Administration officials took strong issue with the budget office&#8217;s projections.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe that our plan will cover more individuals and at a lower cost and give them the choices that they want,&#8221; Mr Price said. But leading Democrat Chuck Schumer said the projections show &#8220;just how empty the president&#8217;s promises, that everyone will be covered and costs will go down, have been&#8221;.</p>
<p>The American Medical Association, which opposes the Republican bill because it would reduce coverage, said the report shows the legislation would cause &#8220;unacceptable consequences&#8221;.</p>
<p>Though many Republicans back the bill, conservatives say it does not go far enough in repealing Mr Obama&#8217;s law, while moderates whose states expanded Medicaid do not want people losing coverage.</p>
<p>The budget office estimated by 2026, a total of 52 million people would lack insurance, including 28 million who would have been expected to lack coverage under Mr Obama&#8217;s statute.</p>
<p>People with lower incomes aged 50 to 64, generally too young for Medicare, would represent a disproportionately large share of the uninsured, and growing numbers of people would lose coverage from jobs.</p>
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